This is contrasted with investors adding $1.25 billion to bond-based mutual funds during the same period.

Dow Jones Newswires reports that the outflow was primarily from international stock funds, with investors withdrawing $1.4 billion. The remainder occurred on the domestic level, at around $79 million.

During the same time frame, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.2%, the Nasdaq, 0.1% and the S&P 500 rose 1.2%.

TrimTabs.com, based in Santa Rosa, CA, says it computes its estimates by directly tracking the cash flow of 679 stock funds and 291 bond funds through a computer model.

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